Antique Pair Satinwood Commodes Cabinets Maple & Co c.1880

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Antique Pair Satinwood Commodes Cabinets Maple & Co c.1880

This is a superb and rare pair of antique Sheraton Revival, satinwood cabinets, circa 1880 in date and bearing the brass plaque of  one the largest and most successful British furniture retailers and cabinet makers of the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

This beautifully proportioned pair of bow fronted cabinets feature wonderful satinwood matched veneers, tulipwood banding, oval inlaid shell decoration and boxwood and ebony line inlay.  They each have two useful half width drawers, over a pair of doors which open to reveal a cupboard with a central shelf. Each door has an oval panel of wonderful flame satinwood set in a rectangular panel with tulipwood banding. They are fitted with their elegant original brass handles and stand on short tapered legs. The working brass locks bear the impressed stamp the famous Victorian lock maker Hobbs & Co, and have their original keys.

Add a touch of class to a special room in your home with this superb pair. Condition:

In really excellent original untouched condition, please see photos for confirmation.

 

Dimensions in cm:

Height 100 x Width 107 x Depth 58

Dimensions in inches:

Height 39.4 x Width 42.1 x Depth 22.8

Maple & Co the renowned furniture retailer of London, Paris and Buenos Aires,   were famous for top quality furniture. They were by Royal Appointment and  became one of the leading furniture manufacturers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. They used only the finest quality timber which was imported directly from all over the world.   Maple and Company were founded in 1841 in Tottenham Court Road, London and had premises there until 1997.  By the 1880s they were the largest and most successful furniture makers in the world, their huge emporium having become a tourist attraction in its own right. In addition to their middle class clientele, they furnished Embassies, hotels, beautiful homes and palaces all over the globe, including Tsar Nicholas's Winter Palace, the Hoffburg Imperial Palace in Vienna, and many of Britain's country houses. Satinwood  is a hard and durable wood with a satinlike sheen, much used in cabinetmaking, especially in marquetry . It comes from two tropical trees of the family Rutaceae (rue  family). East Indian or Ceylon satinwood is the yellowish or dark-brown heartwood of Chloroxylon swietenia.  The lustrous, fine-grained, usually figured wood is used for furniture, cabinetwork, veneers, and backs of brushes. West Indian satinwood, sometimes called yellow wood, is considered superior. It is the golden yellow, lustrous, even-grained wood found in the Florida Keys and the West Indies.  It has long been valued for furniture. It is also used for musical instruments, veneers, and other purposes. Satinwood is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida, order Sapindales, family Rutaceae.

Alfred Charles Hobbs  (1812 - 1891) born in America, when Alfred was only three years old his father died leaving the family destitute. Beginning at the age of ten, A. C. Hobbs worked at a variety of jobs ranging from farm help to wood carving, carriage building, tinsmithing, and harness making. While an apprentice at the Sandwich Glass Company, he learned to make doorknobs and became interested in locks. For a while he was a partner in a small firm of Jones & Hobbs, lock makers. About 1840 he became a salesman for the Day & Newell Company - one of America's foremost lock makers. Here he earned a reputation as an expert lock picker. He found that the best way to sell his Companies locks was to pick the locks of his competitors.  In 1851 he was sent to the Great Exhibition in London where he successfully picked the famous Chubb and Bramah locks. ( "Great Lock Controversy" .)  Assisted by his newly won fame and publicity, he founded Hobbs & Co., London, in 1852

 

Thomas Sheraton   (1751 - 1806) was an English cabinetmaker and one of the leading exponents of Neoclassicism . Sheraton gave his name to a style of furniture  characterised by a feminine refinement of late Georgian styles and became the most powerful source of inspiration behind the furniture of the late 18th century. His four-part Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterers’ Drawing Book  greatly influenced English and American design.

Sheraton was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker, but he became better known as an inventor, artist, mystic, and religious controversialist. Initially he wrote on theological subjects, describing himself as a “mechanic, one who never had the advantage of collegiate or academical education.” He settled in London c. 1790, and his trade card gave his address as Wardour Street, Soho.

Supporting himself mainly as an author, Sheraton wrote Drawing Book (1791), the first part of which is devoted to somewhat naive, verbose dissertations on perspective, architecture, and geometry and the second part, on which his reputation is certainly based, is filled with plates that are admirable in draftsmanship, form, and proportion.

In 1803 Sheraton, who had been ordained a Baptist minister in 1800, published his Cabinet Dictionary  (with plates), containing An Explanation of All Terms Used in the Cabinet, Chair and Upholstery Branches with Dictionary for Varnishing, Polishing and Gilding.  Some of the designs in this work, venturing well into the Regency style, are markedly unconventional. That he was a fashionable cabinetmaker is remarkable, for he was poor, his home of necessity half shop. It cannot be presumed that he was the maker of those examples even closely resembling his plates. 

Although Sheraton undoubtedly borrowed from other cabinetmakers, most of the plates in his early publications are supposedly his own designs. The term Sheraton has been recklessly bestowed upon vast quantities of late 18th-century painted and inlaid satinwood furniture, but, properly understood and used in a generic sense, Sheraton is an appropriate label recognizing a mastermind behind the period. The opinion that his lack of success was caused by his assertive character is hypothetical.

Satinwood  is a hard and durable wood with a satinlike sheen, much used in cabinetmaking, especially in marquetry . It comes from two tropical trees of the family Rutaceae (rue  family). East Indian or Ceylon satinwood is the yellowish or dark-brown heartwood of Chloroxylon swietenia.  The lustrous, fine-grained, usually figured wood is used for furniture, cabinetwork, veneers, and backs of brushes. West Indian satinwood, sometimes called yellow wood, is considered superior. It is the golden yellow, lustrous, even-grained wood found in the Florida Keys and the West Indies.  It has long been valued for furniture. It is also used for musical instruments, veneers, and other purposes. Satinwood is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida, order Sapindales, family Rutaceae.  The flame figure in the wood is revealed by slicing through the face of the branch at the point where it joins another element of the tree. Tulipwood   is most commonly, the pinkish yellowish wood yielded from the tuliptree. It is f ound on the Eastern side of North America and also in some parts of China. In the United States, it is commonly known as tulip poplar or yellow poplar, even though the tree is not related to the poplars . In fact, the reference to poplar is a result of the tree's height, which can exceed 100 feet.  

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